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Supporting Faculty and Research

Sharon Inman, Ph.D., associate professor of renal physiology, conducts her research within the ARC on the third floor, where many researchers who study diabetes are aggregated. A self-described “blood and guts” person, she and Kelly McCall, Ph.D. (’03), assistant professor of endocrinology, are principal investigators in a study examining the possible benefits of niacin and chromium in the diets of type 2 diabetics. Being across the hall from each other, their work is precisely the vision of cooperation that drove the creation of the ARC.

“This is what the whole intention of the ARC was supposed to be. I do the renal function studies, and she’s molecular,” said Dr. Inman. “It’s really working now. We don’t even have doors.”

Dr. Inman works in the Thomas and Barbara Anderson Medical Research Laboratory, another gift of Dr. Anderson and his wife, and it is one of the many namesakes within the ARC from alumni and friends to provide state-of-the art interconnected laboratories and gathering spaces intended to inspire and support collaboration. Completed in 2010, the 89,000-square-foot facility was a collaboration between OU-HCOM and the Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ College of Engineering and Technology. Yet much of the venture was funded through private donors such as the Andersons.

Through efforts of the capital campaign, OU-HCOM intends to significantly increase its interdisciplinary research through an investment in programs and the recruitment and support of more scientists.

Expanding scholarships